Memorial Day Quotes
This page is assembled from three others: War, Death and Gratitude. There is no memorial collection underneath it. One poem is filed against the day itself, Joyce Kilmer’s, in Trees and Other Poems (1914), and it opens with a bugle that, he says, is not singing of war today.
The rest is whatever the three source pages rate highest, so it leans toward poetry and toward writers who saw war up close. Several famous lines about death and sacrifice carry flags here, so read the note on a quote’s own page before you attach a name to it.
When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.
Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.
Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
There’s nothing like a stupid, accidental death to remind you of the supreme futility of everything.
Be grateful for the highs — and be grateful for the lows — 'cause it's in the lows where you learn.
Wheresoever ye be, death will overtake you, although ye be in lofty towers.
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.
A ruler that has but an army has one hand, but he who has a navy has both.